Topics
Cancer
Survival of patients with ruptured and non‐ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma
Patients with ruptured HCC should be treated with the aim of long term survival
Natassia P Tan · Ammar Majeed · Stuart K Roberts · Paul J Gow · Penny Hey · Xianjun Mah · Mark Goodwin · Siddharth Sood · John Lubel · Amanda Nicoll · Anouk Dev · Sally J Bell · William W Kemp
Pretibial metastatic basal cell carcinoma
A 72-year-old immunocompromised woman presented with a 6-month history of a rapidly growing right pretibial lesion and a palpable right groin lump
Phillip Cantwell
Childhood cancer: unique opportunities and inherent challenges
As the incidence of childhood cancer rises, challenges include delivering personalised precision medicine and minimising the late effects of disease and treatment
Neevika Manoharan · Tracey O'Brien
The incidence of childhood cancer in Australia, 1983–2015, and projections to 2035
The causes of childhood cancers must be understood before interventions to reduce their incidence can be developed
Danny R Youlden · Peter D Baade · Adèle C Green · Patricia C Valery · Andrew S Moore · Joanne F Aitken
HPV swab self‐collection and cervical cancer in women who have sex with women
A 39-year-old woman was referred for colposcopy with a positive human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 infection result on a self-collected HPV vaginal swab
Monica FG McGauran · Adam Pendlebury
Understanding the proportion of cervical cancers attributable to HPV
M ost cervical cancers can be prevented with HPV vaccination and screening
Julia ML Brotherton · Alison C Budd · Marion Saville
The cheques and balances of national universal screening of patients with new colorectal cancer for Lynch syndrome
Tiered universal screening systems that save lives are cost- effective
Megan Hitchins
Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
Cancer overdiagnosis is a substantial problem that urgently requires changes in public health policy
Paul P Glasziou · Mark A Jones · Thanya Pathirana · Alexandra L Barratt · Katy JL Bell
Second primary cancers in people who had cancer as children: an Australian Childhood Cancer Registry population‐based study
Survivors of childhood cancer remain at increased risk of a second primary cancer well into adulthood
Danny R Youlden · Peter D Baade · Adèle C Green · Patricia C Valery · Andrew S Moore · Joanne F Aitken
Estimating the lifetime risks of cancer: the best measure depends on your purpose
Estimates adjusted for competing risks of mortality can be more meaningful, but make some comparisons more difficult
Elizabeth Buckley · David M Roder
Is the risk of cancer in Australia overstated? The importance of competing mortality for estimating lifetime risk
The current method for calculating lifetime risks overestimates these risks, especially for men
Anthea C Bach · Kelvin SE Lo · Thanya Pathirana · Paul P Glasziou · Alexandra L Barratt · Mark A Jones · Katy JL Bell
Orbital rhabdomyosarcoma: a rare ophthalmic condition
A previously well 6-year-old girl presented to her doctor with a mildly injected right eye and upper eyelid swelling
Jiyeon Kim · Jonathan G Ussher
Histiocytoid Sweet syndrome
A 48-year-old man presented with a 3-day history of a rapidly progressing painful and pruritic cutaneous eruption and fever
Kirsty JL Wark · Helena Crawshaw
The predicted impact and cost‐effectiveness of systematic testing of people with incident colorectal cancer for Lynch syndrome
Universal tumour testing strategies for guiding germline genetic testing are likely to be cost-effective compared with no testing
Yoon‐Jung Kang · James Killen · Michael Caruana · Kate Simms · Natalie Taylor · Ian M Frayling · Tristan Snowsill · Nicola Huxley · Veerle MH Coupe · Suzanne Hughes · Victoria Freeman · Alex Boussioutas · Alison H Trainer · Robyn L Ward · Gillian Mitchell · Finlay A Macrae · Karen Canfell
Breast tomosynthesis: a fine balance between benefits and harms in breast cancer screening
Many questions need to be discussed before 3D-mammography is adopted for standard screening
Meagan E Brennan
Pilot trial of digital breast tomosynthesis (3D mammography) for population‐based screening in BreastScreen Victoria
Breast cancer detection, recall for assessment, and screen reading time were each higher for tomosynthesis than standard mammography
Nehmat Houssami · Darren Lockie · Michelle Clemson · Vicki Pridmore · David Taylor · Georgina Marr · Jill Evans · Petra Macaskill
Pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy: a rare but underappreciated complication of malignancy
A 36-year-old man presented with a syncopal episode and worsening dyspnoea over the previous 3 days
Pakeeran Siriratnam · Vishal Boolell
Diagnosing melanoma: the method matters
Accurate diagnosis and staging of invasive melanoma requires an appropriate biopsy and technical proficiency
Michael A Rtshiladze · Jonathan R Stretch · Richard A Scolyer · Pascale Guitera
The increasing use of shave biopsy for diagnosing invasive melanoma in Australia
Excisional biopsy remains the most appropriate diagnostic biopsy technique for invasive melanoma
Sara L de Menezes · John W Kelly · Rory Wolfe · Helen Farrugia · Victoria J Mar
Squamous cell carcinoma arising from a nasojugal cyst
A 76- year- old man with no significant past medical history presented with a 4- month history of a rapidly growing left nasojugal mass
Phillip Cantwell · Helena Van Dam
Renewed cervical screening: what the early results tell us
The renewed program delivers a more personalised program for women by applying risk stratification
David C Currow · Sanchia Aranda
Assessment and management of bone health in women with oestrogen receptor‐positive breast cancer receiving endocrine therapy: position statement summary
Management should be individualised, using a multidisciplinary approach
Mathis Grossmann · Sabashini K Ramchand · Frances Milat · Amanda Vincent · Elgene Lim · Mark A Kotowicz · Jill Hicks · Helena J Teede
The EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire for cancer patients (QLQ‐C30): Australian general population reference values
Australian reference values provide benchmarks for assessing the impact of disease and treatment on Australians with cancer
Rebecca Mercieca‐Bebber · Daniel SJ Costa · Richard Norman · Monika Janda · David P Smith · Peter Grimison · Eva‐Marie Gamper · Madeleine T King
HPV vaccination coverage and course completion rates for Indigenous Australian adolescents, 2015
Improving completion rates for Indigenous Australian women are needed to end their higher burden of cervical cancer
Julia ML Brotherton · Karen L Winch · Genevieve Chappell · Carolyn Banks · Dennis Meijer · Sonya Ennis · Karen Peterson · Rosalind Webby · Lisa J Whop
Routine cervical screening by primary HPV testing: early findings in the renewed National Cervical Screening Program
The renewed program is performing as expected during the initial HPV screening round
Dorothy A Machalek · Jennifer M Roberts · Suzanne M Garland · Julia Thurloe · Adele Richards · Ian Chambers · Terri Sivertsen · Annabelle Farnsworth
